Wisconsin caucuses pose thorny safety issues during pandemic
Jan. 7, 2021
Some towns and villages require residents to choose local candidates in January gatherings. Do these caucuses violate disability and voting rights?
Some towns and villages require residents to choose local candidates in January gatherings. Do these caucuses violate disability and voting rights?
A new poll question about how readers view the actions of Trump loyalists who stormed the U.S. Capitol is available to be used by WNA members.
Readers visiting WNA member websites from Dec. 16 to Jan. 4 were asked about their plans to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Here are the results.
While livestreaming meetings has become the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials need to do a better job of making sure no one — and no meeting — slips through the technological cracks.
In the most recent installment of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council’s Your Right to Know column, La Crosse Tribune reporter Olivia Herken offers local lawmakers some suggestions.
Lately I’ve had a difficult time hearing, and I’m not referring to selective hearing, the condition that occurs in many marriages.
Schools are not the superspreader sites that many feared, but research indicates U.S. students fell behind in math during the pandemic
Continuing a year-end tradition launched by one of its predecessor organizations more than a decade ago, the Wisconsin Policy Forum announces its top five research findings for 2020.
Gov. Tony Evers says his two-year budget plan due to be delivered in mid-February will again propose accepting federal money to expand the Medicaid program.
The Chicago-based O’Rourke Media Group has purchased RiverTown Multimedia from Forum Communications.
RiverTown publishes two newspapers, the Republican Eagle in Red Wing, Minn., and the (Hudson) Star-Observer. RiverTown previously published eight newspapers — four in Minnesota and four in Wisconsin — before merging several publications in 2019 and closing two newspapers this year in part due to the pandemic. The sale was effective Jan. 1.
Merle J. Hill, who worked nearly four decades in the La Crosse Tribune newsroom, died Saturday, Dec. 26, at Tomah Memorial Hospital. He was 102.
In 1946, after settling in La Crosse with his wife following service in World War II, Hill took a job as a reporter for the Tribune. After two years as a reporter, he became the newspaper’s wire editor, a role he held for the next 35 years.
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